One of the major criticisms of Democrats before last year\u2019s election was they kept talking about how low unemployment was, how wages were rising, inflation was falling and a bevy of other numbers showing an economy firing on all thrusters. And while most of that was true, the reality for many lower-income Americans was they were nevertheless struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n
Fast forward a year, and unemployment is rising, wages are stagnating and inflation has hit 3%. At the same time, the Wall Street obsession with a handful of technology stocks has catapulted markets to new heights, making the disconnect with the rest of the country more pronounced. In 2025, it\u2019s not just low-income America that\u2019s in trouble: now it\u2019s the middle class, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the major criticisms of Democrats before last year\u2019s election was they kept talking about how low…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[733,14164,84,2343,1294,80,1431,3356,2173,69049,56,1932,54,55,7181],"class_list":["post-248298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-briefing","tag-business","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-stocks","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-uk","tag-unemployment","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}